Top 10 Pixies songs

What's your Top Ten Pixies songs? Anything from their recent stuff? not me. Here's my 10 in order:

1. Debaser
2. Here Comes Your Man
3. Gigantic
4. Dig for Fire
5. Planet of Sound
6. Monkey Gone to Heaven
7. Nimrods Son
8. Tame
9. Wave of Mutilation
10. Gouge Away

 

Gigantic (12" Version)
Where Is My Mind
Monkey Gone To Heaven
No. 13 Baby
Tame
Debaser
In Heaven
Alec Eiffel
Planet of Sound
Motorway to Roswell

 

Hey
Debaser
Dig for fire
Velouria
Gouge away
I've been tired
U-mass
Gigantic
No.13 baby
Tame

11 - an 8 way tie of more rad songs

 

Where Is My Mind
Monkey Gone To Heaven
Hey
Dig For Fire
Velouria
Into The White
Break My Body
Is She Weird
Stormy Weather
Palace Of The Brine

... and 10 more songs!

 

While making this list, it was more clear to me than ever before how relatively weak the songs on Bossanova are to me, there were only two songs that were an option for this top 10
Velouria and Dig For Fire. I knew this was the case with Surfer Rosa (still love both albums though). Trompe Le Monde was my first owned Pixies cd (I had a tape with Doolittle on it) that might have something to do with having so much songs in my top 10, though as an album I prefer Doolittle: more Kim, less filler. Also, I think Gigantic is overrated

1. Debaser
2. Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons
3. Motorway To Roswell
4. Palace Of The Brine
5. Letter To Memphis
6. No. 13 Baby
7. Hey
8. Manta Ray
9. Into The White
10. Velouria

 

Where Is My Mind

Monkey Gone To Heaven

Here Comes Your Man

Gigantic

Wave Of Mutilation

Tame

 

Alison
All Over the World
Ana
Caribou
Gigantic
I've Been Waiting for You
Planet of Sound
Velouria
Wave of Mutilation (either version)
Where Is My Mind?

 

Debaser
Ed Is Dead
Gigantic
Gouge Away
Hear Comes Your Man
Hey
Monkey Gone To Heaven
U-Mass
Velouria
Wave Of Mutilation

Despite hearing Here Comes Your Man & Monkey Gone To Heaven enough times for my lifetime, they still belong in the Pixies' best songs list and were massively played for a reason. Frank Black was/is(?) one of the greatest songwriters of modern times. Honourable mention to "Bam Thwok" (written by Kim Deal & the last decent Pixies song)

 

Bone Machine
River Euphrates
Where is My Mind
Debaser
Number 13 Baby
Gouge Away
Havalina
Planet of Sound
Motorway to Roswell
U-Mass

 

Ever hear the version of "Here Comes Your Man" by Teenage Fanclub?
Very nice electric version with super harmonies.

 

My top 10:

1. Cactus
2. U-Mass
3. Wave Of Mutilation (album version)
4. Gigantic
5. Where Is My Mind
6. Debaser
7. Born In Chicago
8. Motorway To Roswell
9. Hey
10. Caribou

And no, nothing from their recent reunion stuff at all. None of it has grabbed me yet; I'd even rate much of Frank Black's earlier solo albums above it.

 

No. Not yet.

 

Hard to pick just ten. Many of my faves didn't make it to this list!

The Happening <-- Am I the only one who thinks this is peak Pixies?
Bone Machine
Where Is My Mind
Debaser
Tame
The Sad Punk
I Bleed
Gigantic
Break My Body
Motorway to Roswell

 

Gaaaah. Tough. In the order I thought of them ...

Debaser
Wave of Mutilation
Letter To Memphis
Gigantic
Monkey Gone To Heaven
River Euphrates
Dig For Fire
Tony's Theme
Oh My Golly!
Ana

 

In no particular order:

Wave of Mutilation
Levitate Me
I've Been Tired
Debaser
The Holiday Song
Vamos
Broken Face
Islam De Encanta
Nimrod's Son
Gigantic

 

Allison
Here Comes Your Man
Bone Machine
Gigantic
Where is My Mind
Debaser
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Cactus
Wave of Mutilation
Dig for Fire

There should be more love for "Allison" if nothing else because of the subject matter and Joey's guitar break.

 

You're right. I keep thinking of songs I should have included

 

Very difficult...........no particular, picking only 10 was hard enough.

Levitate Me – 2:37
Bone Machine – 3:02
Cactus – 2:16
Hey – 3:31
Broken Face – 1:30
Allison – 1:17
Monkey Gone to Heaven – 2:56
Dig for Fire – 3:02
Palace of the Brine – 1:34
Dead – 2:21

 

Gigantic
Debaser
Alec Eiffel
Where Is My Mind
Bone Machine
Planet Of Sound
Broken Face
Wave Of Mutilation
The Sad Punk
I'm Amazed (there were rumors )

 

Debaser
Dig For Fire
Gigantic
Gouge Away
Here Comes Your Man
Hey
Monkey Gone to Heaven
The Holiday Song
Wave of Mutilation
Where is My Mind?

 

It should be posted on You Tube. I saw Teenage Fanclub play two weeks ago and they are still great live (although they look kinda like middle-school teachers now).

 

Monkey Gone to Heaven
The Happening
Bone Machine
Where Is My Mind
Debaser
Tame
Greens and Blues
Wave of Mutilation
Gigantic
Classic Masher

I'm not precious about Pixies, or stuck in the late 80s .

 

Awesome! Thank you for letting me know.

 

Into the white
Monley gone to heaven
Hey
Nimrod's son
Wave of mutilation
In heaven (lady in the radioator song)
Ed is dead
Vamos
I can't forget
Indy Cindy

 

Has anyone done an analysis of Black's chord progressions? They're very weird. What are Frank Black's songwriting secrets?